Agrega una trama en tu idiomaA woman stumbles upon a pair of pink high heels while walking down a subway platform. She picks them up and takes them home only to find out that they are cursed and can ruin her life.A woman stumbles upon a pair of pink high heels while walking down a subway platform. She picks them up and takes them home only to find out that they are cursed and can ruin her life.A woman stumbles upon a pair of pink high heels while walking down a subway platform. She picks them up and takes them home only to find out that they are cursed and can ruin her life.
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Sun-Jae unexpectedly goes home in the middle of the day to find her husband banging some other woman. She moves out on her own with her young daughter Han Tae-su to an inexpensive apartment near Goksung Station. She meets handsome young architect, In-cheol who is designing her eye clinic and the two embark on a relationship. On the subway on her way home Sun-Jae sees a seemingly abandoned pair of shoes she cannot resist picking up. The shoes bring the worst out in people, including her daughter who becomes obsessed with them on sight. When a friend is found dead and her daughters behavior becomes more severe, Sun-Jae and In-cheol will need to solve the mystery behind the cursed footwear before it's too late.
Bloody death scenes filmed in sterile white environments can be extremely effective. The opening scene of 'THE RED SHOES' is an outstanding example of this. There are some cherry props also. The main character is obsessed with shoes. The depth of the obsession is shown with a massive glass store display prop. The stacked glass boxes showcases each individual pair of shoes. The visuals are strong throughout. There are some respectable moments of suspense, but not nearly enough of them. Violence and gore is slim but I enjoyed what there was of it. The performances were strong and there is some interesting character development. I found the lead actress, Hye-su Kim fascinating. The love interest, In-cheol is very easy on the eyes. The problem is, that I liked the films individual pieces more than the completed work. I had a serious issue with certain "spooky" images. One in particular stood out because it is a carbon copy of something I've seen in at least two other films and seemed completely irrelevant to the story. Obviously added in for mood, it was totally ineffective. There are some predictable plot twists that also bog it down. The story is uneven and trips over its own feet, but ultimately for a ghost story it just isn't very scary. That said, I still think this is a really nice looking film with strong performances and enough special touches that it's worth a watch.
Sun-jae is in an unhappy marriage. After catching her husband having sex with another woman she moves out with her young daughter, Tae-su, into a rundown apartment block. One day she spots a pair of high-heeled shoes apparently abandoned in a subway car and takes them home. Immediately she becomes obsessed with them. Back at her apartment, daughter Tae-su tries to take them from her, becoming just as obsessed. When Sun-jae's best friend, Kim Mi-hee, visits she *also* becomes obsessed with them, going so far as to steal them for herself. However, as she's walking home she's killed by an unseen force, When her body is found the stolen shoes are missing, somehow soon returned to Sun-jae. It seems that every female who comes into contact with the shoes becomes overcome with a compulsion to own them and a willingness to do anything to achieve that. Sun-jae eventually finds a link between the shoes and a Japanese dancer in 1940s Japan-occupied Korea, named Keiko; the shoes were central to a tragic series of events - which seem to have left behind a malign influence and a desire for retribution.
Actress Kim Hye-soo is very good as Sun-jae, and Park Yeon-ah is terrific as Tae-su, spending the whole movie running scared, sad, or very angry (I can't find a date of birth for her, but she looks to be about eight years old). The basic idea is promising. But the storyline is shown in such a confusing way, the film feels about 15 minutes too long, and it's unbelievably 'J-horror generic' (I realise it's South Korean). I'm happy to watch a ton of Asian horror movies about cursed objects, past wrongs, and revenge-obsessed, long-haired ghost girls - so long as they're *good*. This feels as though director Yong-gyun Kim watched all the Ring and Grudge movies, and - especially - Dark Water, and then just mixed and matched parts he liked. There's a very strong, atmospheric opening inside a deserted subway station that really raises the expectations; it's a shame the rest of the film doesn't live up to it. 5.5/10.
It's your typical run of the mill haunted item horror movie with nothing too spectacular or special to differentiate the movie from others. Even though its stylish and definitely has some brutal scenes with great makeup effects the movie overall ended up to be very average. We have seen similar movies before and this movie definitely will find its audience somewhere but overall I don't think it's a movie to be remembered. Still a decent watch for you if you enjoy creepy Asian supernatural horror movies. [5,2/10]
The story is about a pair of haunted red shoes - yeah, exactly. Enough said! The storyline was a tad too silly for me and the entire movie was just lacking a proper red line throughout the entire storyline.
The movie wasn't spooky or scary, and it managed to stay afloat and pass as semi-watchable because of the acting performances put on by the cast. But the performances couldn't really manage to lift up the movie because the story was lacking the all-important spice. And as such, this movie was a below average experience.
South Korea do manage to put some really great horror movies out there, but "The Red Shoes" (aka "Bunhongsin") just wasn't one such occurrence.
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- TriviaItalian censorship visa # 99509 delivered on 15 December 2005.
- ErroresThe colour of the shoes in the modern day moments of the film are a purplish pink, however during the moments where it was presumably the Japanese occupation of Korea at that time, the shoes are a reddish pink, perhaps due to the fact that the shoes have been worn for a very long period of time.
- Citas
Sun-jae: [Angry] Mommy loves Tae-soo very much... But mommy really hates when Tae-soo lies.
Tae-su: [Crying] It's not a lie! Daddy really came! He said he's too cold and to take him out!
Sun-jae: [Angry] Don't lie to me!... I told you that daddy couldn't come here. How can he? I told you he can't come here, so how could he? How can he?... Why did you lie? Why did you lie?
Tae-su: [Crying] Mommy. Mommy.
Sun-jae: [Sun-jae realizes what she had done to her daughter and hugs her]
[Crying]
Sun-jae: Tae-soo. Tae-soo... Tae-soo, I'm sorry. Mommy was wrong... Tae-soo. Tae-soo... Tae-soo, mommy was wrong. I was wrong. Mommy was wrong...
[Sun-jae becomes obsessed by the red shoes again and grabs her daughter's hair angrily]
Sun-jae: [Angry] But mommy... Really hates when Tae-soo lies.
- Créditos curiososAfter Taesoo, who is covered in thick makeup and wears a black top and white tutu while dancing and looking at her reflection in the mirror, part of the beginning of the credits show. However before they get past the second actor in the cast list, the screen shakes and the text turns red as if there is a technical problem, before it reverts to a scene of people walking in the park. The pink shoes can be seen again in the park, and a girl with roller blades leans down to pick them up. After her hand covers the camera, the credits roll normally.
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Detalles
Taquilla
- Total a nivel mundial
- USD 7,853,740
- Tiempo de ejecución
- 1h 43min(103 min)
- Color
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 2.35 : 1